Andrea Nero, MS, RD, LDN – Rhode Island

3 Million Americans with Celiac Disease, 95% Don’t Know It

“…Studies show that 3 million Americans, or 1 in every 133 people, have celiac disease. But 95 percent of them have yet to learn they have it, according to the National Institutes of Health.

“The entire disease and all of its manifestations are incredibly underdiagnosed,” said Dr. Charles Bongiorno, the chief of the division of gastroenterology and hepatology at the University of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey. “Patients often have it for a decade or two before they are diagnosed…”